Expanding on years of mass spectrometry-based fingerprint detection technology and research, Melanie Bailey and her team have now proven a single fingerprint left at a crime scene can be used to determine whether someone has ingested cocaine or simply touched it.
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Trips down to the department’s evidence room only deepened Brady’s frustration. Most of the evidence in cold rape cases had disappeared, everything from blood samples to basic investigative records.
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NC State was recently announced as one of two forensic anthropology subcontractors with RTI International on the management of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).
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On June 5, 2011, patrol officers from the New Castle County Division of Police were dispatched to the wooded area of Sellers Park off Edgemoor Road for the discovery of human bones.
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A $1 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help the state address key findings of the University of Louisville Human Trafficking Research Initiative’s Project PIVOT, a two-year research project.
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Distressed by authorities’ poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, one doctor became a DNA archivist long before we had the technology to test it. For potentially hundreds of survivors, his faith in science is paying off.
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In December 2020, the Cold Case Team identified the woman's adult son. Through DNA, the unidentified woman was positively identified as Laurie Diane Potter.
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A Houston man who had been convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing but was later eliminated as the killer by DNA evidence was declared innocent last week by Texas' highest criminal court.
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A definitive answer to the question of where the famous explorer came from could be just five months away as international scientists launched an effort to read the DNA from his remains and identify his geographic origin.
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Researchers have found that technology known as MALDI-MSI can be applied at crime scenes for the tandem detection of human blood and DNA-typing from enhanced fingerprints.
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